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Dick Brothers shows the paper stock certificates he owns that date back to the 1920s. Most are from old silver and gold mining companies with the stock being purchased by Brothers' grandfather in Alaskan and California mining towns.The paper stock certificate is rapidly becoming a piece of a bygone era. (Manny Crisostomo/Sacramento Bee/MCT)

In their glory days, paper stock certificates were mini artworks, embellished with engraved images of eagles, cherubs, Gold Rush miners and sheaves of wheat. Or even sexy Playboy centerfolds.

Today, they're financial-document dinosaurs, going the paperless way of U.S. savings bonds and Social Security checks. In an era of instant electronic stock trading, getting a paper stock certificate is downright difficult.

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